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������’s Ohio Employee Ownership Center (OEOC) will host the 31st Annual Ohio Employee Ownership Conference on Friday, April 28, 2017, at the Hilton West in Fairlawn, Ohio. This year’s keynote speaker is Cindy Turcot, Chief Operating Officer of Gardener’s Supply Co. in Burlington, Vermont, the nation’s largest catalog and web marketer of gardening products. Turcot is a nationally recognized speaker on ownership culture, open book and participatory management structures. During her term as COO, she has been instrumental in growing the company to more than 275 employee owners, ...

On April 22, 2017, demonstrators around the world will participate in a March for Science in a call to support and safeguard the scientific community, fact-based decision making, basic research, and freedom of speech for scientists. Partnering with poet and environmental spokesperson Jane Hirshfield, the Wick Poetry Center will join the marchers at the Teach-In on the National Mall in Washington D.C.  The Wick staff will lead visitors in a poetry-writing exercise to creatively engage with seminal scientific writing. Our #PoetsforScience effort will also showcase twenty 7-foot bann...

Known for her passion for students and involvement in ������'s School of Journalism and Mass Communication, Associate Professor Jan Leach is a recipient of a 2016 Distinguished Teaching Award (DTA). The Distinguished Teaching Award is presented by the University Teaching Council (UTC) to full-time tenured and tenure-track professors who have been teaching at ������ for a minimum of seven years. The award is given to professors who touch the lives of students and demonstrate excellent teaching in the classroom. When Leach was surprised with her Distinguished Tea...

������'s Office of the Provost announced the opening of the One Stop for Student Services at the Kent Campus on June 5. As part of the "Students First" Initiative, the One Stop for Student Services will serve as a single point-of-contact for student customer services previously provided at the Bursar, Registrar and Student Financial Aid offices. One Stop counselors will be cross-trained and provide holistic advising in these areas. The One Stop will be located on the first floor of University Library at the Kent Campus. Comprehensive student services also will be pr...

KENT STATE BIOLOGIST AWARDED $1.5 MILLION TO ADVANCE RESEARCH OF ALZHEIMER’S IN WOMEN   Research shows that women are more likely to develop Alzheimer’s disease than men by a 3-to-2 margin. Some scientists believe this is because when women reach menopause, their bodies cease to produce estrogen, and the pituitary gland begins over-producing another hormone, luteinizing hormone (LH), to try to jump-start the ovaries.   Gemma Casadesus Smith, an associate professor of Biological Sciences in ������’s College of Arts and Sciences, plans to test those beliefs i...

Michele Ewing, associate professor in ������’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication (JMC), was recently recognized for her research on internal communication at the International Public Relations Research Conference in Orlando. Ewing and the team of researchers – Julie O’Neil, of Texas Christian University; Stacey Smith, of Jackson, Jackson & Wagner; and Sean Williams, of True Digital Communications – earned the IPR Top 2 Papers of Practical Significance Award for the paper “A Delphi Study to Identify Standards for Internal Communication,” which is focused on a two-year re...

Ask some of the most successful CEOs about their undergraduate degrees, and you might get an unexpected answer. While most would expect to come from business backgrounds, many actually have bachelor degrees in communications, Spanish, or even theatre. GoodCall, an online publication specializing in consumer information, talked with professors around the country about the use of liberal arts degrees and the skills that students use as a springboard to the next step in their education and career path. David W. Odell-Scott, Ph.D., associate dean in ������’s College of Arts an...

Eight School of Visual Communication Design (VCD) students were awarded membership to the prestigious International Society of Typographic Designers (ISTD). The assessment, conducted in late February by an international team of design professionals and academics, involves a rigorous examination of editorial and typographic design. Undergraduates Brenan Stetzer, Dean Sweetnich, and Anna Richard received merit awards. Graduate student Natalie Snodgrass and undergraduate students Emily Thomas, Jess Lahna, and Nick Blanchard passed. Alex Catanese, graduate student, ...